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practise favouritism

Time: 2022-01-31 08:36:20 Author: ChinaWiki.net

practise favouritism

Cheating for personal gain, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y í ngs ī Zu ò B ì, which means to do illegal things by playing tricks for personal gain. It comes from Tang Sitong's daipianshangyu in Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Tan Sitong of the Qing Dynasty wrote "the general period of the people's seclusion was as good as possible, and the governor could not cheat for personal gain."

Idiom usage

To act as a predicate, object, or attribute

practise favouritism


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